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Moscow/IBNS-CMEDIA: A Russian passenger plane carrying 49 people crashed in the eastern part of the country on Thursday, media reports said.
Among 49, six were crew members. No survivors were found.
The Antonov An-24 passenger plane crashed in the eastern Amur region.
The 43 passengers include five children.
The debris of the crashed plane was tracked by a rescue helicopter on the mountain side.
The plane went missing after it dropped off radar screens while approaching its destination, a remote town of Tynda bordering China.
“According to the director of Tynda Airport, the plane caught fire upon impact, and a Mi-8 helicopter crew flying over the area reported no signs of survivors,” the regional civil defence and fire safety center told Russian news agency TASS.
